Effect of Dipyridamole plus Aspirin on Hemodialysis Graft Patency
Author(s) -
Bradley S. Dixon,
Gerald J. Beck,
Miguel A. Vázquez,
Arthur Greenberg,
James A. Delmez,
Michael Allon,
Laura M. Dember,
Jonathan Himmelfarb,
Jennifer Gassman,
Tom Greene,
Milena Radeva,
Ingemar Davidson,
T. Alp İkizler,
Gregory L. Braden,
Andrew Z. Fenves,
James S. Kaufman,
James R. Cotton,
Kévin Martin,
James W. McNeil,
A. Rahman,
Jeffery H. Lawson,
James F. Whiting,
Bo Hu,
Catherine M. Meyers,
John W. Kusek,
Harold I. Feldman
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0805840
Subject(s) - medicine , dipyridamole , aspirin , hemodialysis , placebo , hazard ratio , thrombosis , surgery , cumulative incidence , adverse effect , randomized controlled trial , anesthesia , confidence interval , transplantation , alternative medicine , pathology
Arteriovenous graft stenosis leading to thrombosis is a major cause of complications in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Procedural interventions may restore patency but are costly. Although there is no proven pharmacologic therapy, dipyridamole may be promising because of its known vascular antiproliferative activity.
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